I think that the most significant factor here is that people only vote if they think their preferred candidate is in danger - i.e., in the bottom half or so of the leaderboard. That means that Rachel, whose fan base kept her out of the bottom two in week 5, was at risk because her score was so good that her fans thought they could relax. Et cetera.
I think it will always be like this, as long as (i) the scoring mechanism is not transparent, and (ii) voters cannot be convinced that everyone is at risk. It's possible that Abbey's appearance in the bottom two might have gone some way towards the latter, but basically we are an apathetic bunch and continually subject to cognitive bias.
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Date: 2013-11-04 03:04 pm (UTC)I think it will always be like this, as long as (i) the scoring mechanism is not transparent, and (ii) voters cannot be convinced that everyone is at risk. It's possible that Abbey's appearance in the bottom two might have gone some way towards the latter, but basically we are an apathetic bunch and continually subject to cognitive bias.